BRUSSELS, Dec. 2, 2008 (Reuters) NATO agreed on Tuesday to gradually resume contacts with Russia suspended after Moscow's intervention in Georgia, and put off a decision on putting Ukraine and Georgia on formal membership tracks. ... > full story
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1, 2008 (Reuters) U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Chris Hill will meet North Korean officials in Singapore ahead of December 8 multilateral talks in Beijing on persuading North Korea to abandon its nuclear programs, a U.S. official said on Monday. ... > full story
MOSCOW, Nov. 28, 2008 (Reuters) Russia's military said on Friday it had intensified efforts to develop new ballistic missiles in response to U.S. plans to deploy an anti-missile system in Europe and Russia's navy test fired a new generation rocket. ... > full story
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26, 2008 (Reuters) U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday a decision on opening a diplomatic outpost in Iran would be left up to the incoming Obama administration and was not imminent. ... > full story
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25, 2008 (Reuters) Russia is still failing to meet its ceasefire obligations with Georgia and Washington's European allies must not overlook this and rush to embrace Moscow, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday. ... > full story
LIMA, Nov. 22, 2008 (Reuters) U.S. President George W. Bush preached a message of "free markets, free trade and free people" on Saturday at his last international summit, pledging to use his remaining time in office to work toward a successful conclusion of a global trade deal. ... > full story
LONDON, Nov. 22, 2008 (Reuters) President-elect Barack Obama said on Saturday he was crafting a two-year plan to fight an economic crisis of "historic proportions" and Chinese leader Hu Jintao said his country was ready to play a big role in the global effort. ... > full story
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21, 2008 (Reuters) European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, who leads nuclear negotiations with Iran on behalf of major powers, said Friday he hoped an Obama administration would be more engaged in the talks. ... > full story
GENEVA, Nov. 21, 2008 (Reuters) The United States and Russia ended talks on Friday on the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) without making a decision on extending the landmark pact, which expires in a year, a U.S. statement said. ... > full story
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Hundreds of South Koreans leave North before clampdown Dec. 1, 2008 (Washington Post) Hundreds of South Koreans streamed out of the communist North at the weekend, expelled from a joint industrial enclave by Pyongyang in anger at the ...
IAEA report hardens suspicions Nov. 21, 2008 (News 24, South Africa) The UN atomic watchdog's first report on Syria'a alleged nuclear activities has hardened suspicions that it had been building a nuclear reactor at ...
Iran Has Enough Uranium For Single Atomic Bomb Nov. 21, 2008 (NPR) The International Atomic Energy Agency reports that Iran has produced close to 1,400 pounds of low-enriched uranium. If that material were to be ...
U.S. Concedes Uncertainty on North Korean Uranium Effort Feb. 28, 2007 (New York Times) Last October, the North Koreans tested their first nuclear device, the fruition of decades of work to make a weapon out of plutonium.. . For nearly ...